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PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-301
DATE START/END: 31 DEC 2013 - 29 JUN 2016

Beyond GVP: The value of inshore commercial fisheries to fishers and consumers in regional communities on Queensland’s east coast

The project was developed in collaboration with industry and in consultation with the Queensland FRAB. The project arose as a result of increasing frustration by both commercial and recreational fishers in the lack of understanding of the true contribution each sector makes to the Queensland...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-035
DATE START/END: 29 JUN 2005 - 30 SEP 2008

The development, adoption and evaluation of environmental management systems in Western Australian commercial fisheries

Two commercial fisheries in Western Australia (WA) have developed environmental management systems (EMS) including the third party audited Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Western Rock Lobster Fishery in 2000 and the pearling industry through the National Seafood EMS Pilot...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-211
DATE START/END: 29 SEP 2006 - 28 JUL 2008

Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: examination of green sustainable process technology for preparing chitin and associated derivatives from rock lobster waste

The project is dealing with the extraction of chitin from lobster waste using environmentally friendly clean and green processes. Chitin constitutes the exoskeleton of crustaceans and our innovation presents an opportunity to commercialise the chitin extraction and refining in Western Australia....
ORGANISATION:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-050
DATE START/END: 19 MAR 2008 - 30 JUN 2009

Developing mechanisms for the transfer and/or adjustment of rocklobster shares between sectors in Western Australia and South Australia

The issue of how fish resources can be best shared between competing users is the current focus of fisheries managers Australia-wide. The Western Australian and South Australian Governments are committed to addressing the issue of how fish resources can be best shared between competing users...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-011
DATE START/END: 14 JUL 2015 - 14 MAR 2018

Understanding the factors contributing to decreased school prawn productivity in Camden Haven Estuary and associated lakes, to target ameliorative actions

Camden Haven is a large, wave dominated barrier estuary on the New South Wales North Coast, and contains two main shallow lake areas – Queens Lake and Watson Taylor Lake. Queens Lake is connected to the lower main arm of the estuary by a 3 km channel called Stingray Creek, and Watson-Taylor Lake is...
ORGANISATION:
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-506
DATE START/END: 29 FEB 2016 - 30 MAY 2016

Ralf Yorque Symposium and Ecopath with Ecosim Training Course

Significant effort of the past 50 years has seen the tools available for established, often high value, fisheries become increasingly robust and transparent – with the combination of Ecological Risk Assessments of the Effects of Fishing (Hobday et al 2011), tiered Harvest Strategies (Smith et al...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-063
DATE START/END: 2 FEB 2020 - 9 DEC 2021

Abundance, population modelling, and potential biological removal estimates for Common Dolphins in Spencer Gulf: implications for the South Australian Sardine Fishery

Bycatch in fisheries is the number one source of direct human-caused death and serious injury to marine mammals worldwide, which has been estimated at over 650,000 individuals each year. For a number of species, the level of bycatch mortality is unsustainable and has led to declines in their...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-038
DATE START/END: 19 JUN 2010 - 29 JUN 2011

Improving the cost effectiveness of displaced fishing effort adjustment programmes using ex post socio-economic impact analysis

As part of the Commonwealth Marine Bio-regional planning process, five plans are to be completed by the end of 2010 in the South West, North, North West, East and South East regions. A proposed network of new marine reserves and their zoning arrangements will also be presented. Concurrent with this...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Economics Research and Management Specialists (FERM)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-731
DATE START/END: 30 APR 2010 - 29 NOV 2010

Seafood CRC: discovery and manipulation of Neoparamoeba perurans aquaporins as a means to treat amoebic gill disease (AGD)

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) is the number one health concern related to the production of Atlantic salmon in Tasmania, accounting for approximately 10% of production costs of this industry, which has a current GVP of some AU$360 million p.a and shows strong signs of continued growth. Despite much...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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